Vermont Marble Co.

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 4, 1941

30 N.L.R.B. 58 (N.L.R.B. 1941)

In the Matter Of VERMONT MARBLE COMPANY and INDEPENDENT MARBLE
WORKERS OF VERMONT
In the Matter of VERMONT MARBLE COMPANY and UNITED STONE AND
ALLIED PRODUCTS WORKERS OF - AMERICA, AFFILIATED WITH THE
C. I. O.
Cases Nos. R-19/7 and R-1948
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 4, 19/1
On January 14, 1941, the National Labor Relations Board, herein
called the Board, issued a Decision and Direction of Election 1 in the
above-entitled proceeding. Pursuant thereto, an election by secret
ballot was conducted on February 12 and 13, 1941, under the direction
and supervision of the Regional Director for the First Region (Bos-
ton, Massachusetts). On February 15, 1941, the Regional Director,
acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations
Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued and duly
served on the parties an Election Report; No objections to the con-
duct of the-ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any of the
parties.
As to the balloting and its results, the Regional Director reported as
follows :
Total 'number eligible to vote________________________________ 893
Total number of valid votes cast_____________________________ 672
Total number of ballots marked for "Independent Marble
Workers of Vermont -------------------------------------- 372
Total number of ballots marked for "United Stone and Allied
Products Workers of America, Affiliated with the C. I. O."__ 276
Total number of ballots marked "Neither"____________________ 24
Total number of blank ballots______________________________ 2
Total number of void ballots________________________________ 4
Total number of challenged ballots___________________________ 38
By virtue of and pursuant to the power,vested in the National Labor
Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act,
128 N. L. R. B 1239. The caption of the Decision and Direction of Election errone-
ously set forth the name of Independent Marble Workers of Vermont. The name of Quarry
Workers' International Union of North America (CIO) appeared in place of the name of
United Stone and Allied Products Workers of America, Affiliated with the C. I. 0., prior
to January 30, 1941, when the Board issued an.order granting the motion of the latter
organization to substitute its name for that of the former organization.
30 N. L. R. B., No. 10.
58
VERMONT MARBLE COMPANY 59
49 Stat. 449 , and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9, of Na-
tional Labor - Relations' Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as
amended,
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Independent Marble Workers of Ver-
mont has been designated and selected by a majority of the produc-
tion, maintenance , and railroad employees of Vermont Marble
Company and its auxiliary companies, Vermarco Lime Company and
Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad, at Center Rutland, West Rutland,
Danby, Florence, Proctor, Swanton, and Middlebury, Vermont, in-
cluding the tablemen and helpers, the sampler, the office janitors, the
passenger chauffeurs , the truck drivers, the automobile repairmen, and
Mario Gatti and Armand Vardi, but excluding supervisory, clerical,
office, and powerhouse employees , executives , part-time exhibit em-
ployees other than Mario Gatti and Armand Vardi, mill graders, mill
checkers , shop designers , shop checkers , and watchmen, as their rep-
resentative for the purposes of collective bargaining , and that, pursu-
ant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act, Independent
Marble Workers of Vermont is the exclusive representative of all such
employees for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates
of pay , wages, hours of employment ,- and other conditions of
employment.